20 homegrown celebrities that make us proud to be Canadian

Here are 20 entertainers who are busy making their fellow Canadians proud on our special national holiday celebration day (By Liz Braun, QMI Agency):

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Dan Aykroyd: A Blues Brother, a wild and crazy guy, a Ghostbuster, and an enduring talent soon to be seen in Tammy and in the James Brown biopic, Get On Up.

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Jim Carrey: A comic genius, sure, but Carrey is a hugely underrated actor who's brilliant in such films as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I Love You Phillip Morris and The Truman Show. Among others.

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Kim Cattrall: Got rich and famous by starring in something completely beneath her: Sex and the City. But everyone still loves her anyway.

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Donald Sutherland: A national treasure.

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Kiefer Sutherland: Like father, like son.

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Michael J Fox: Takes a licking and keeps on ticking. You can catch Fox in a classic (Back to the Future) or you can see him right now (in The Good Wife on TV, for example) and either way, you'll admire his staying power.

Lorne Michaels: Can you imagine the world without SNL? Didn't think so.

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Rachel McAdams: She made you cry in The Notebook, then she made you laugh in Wedding Crashers, then she tackled thrillers in Red Eye. She also held her own with Robert Downey Jr. â€“ and that's just for starters. Anything Rachel McAdams can't do?

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Mike Myers: One. Million. Dollars. We would all like to see the Colonel Sanders paintings, please.

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Sandra Oh: Ever notice how Dr. Cristina Yang was the only character on Grey's Anatomy who ever actually did her job? Watch for Nepean's most famous citizen in Tammy, with Melissa McCarthy. It opens tomorrow.

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Jason Priestley: Actor, author, director. The ability to do many jobs well is a hallmark of Canadians. Especially in Hollywood.

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Keanu Reeves: King of The Matrix has three thrillers coming up. Secretly? We still liked him best in Speed. And Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Is it okay to say that? And whenever he's at TIFF, he's really happy to be back in Toronto.

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Ryan Reynolds: Love the little cameos in films like A Million Ways to Die in the West. He's hilarious, yes, but you need to see Reynolds in the ultra-dramatic Buried to know how good he really is.

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Seth Rogen: Even stern and merciless retaliation will not stop the laughter. No.

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William Shatner: You don't need more than Star Trek, but okay: the pile-on includes TV, theatre, music, comedy, filmmaking, horse whisperer and corporate spokesperson. As the New York Daily News so famously put it, â€śIt's now William Shatner's universe â€” we're just living in it.â€ť

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Martin Short: Talk about hiding your light under a bushel.

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Genevieve Bujold (with James Cromwell in Still Mine): The one and only. Hope you saw Still Mine last year.

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Ellen Page: Everybody's favourite pocket Canadian. You can go all the way back to Marion Bridge or fast-forward past Juno, Whip It, Inception and The East all the way to Freeheld, and you'll notice the diminutive actress never puts a foot wrong. Andâ€¦ she was in Trailer Park Boys.